Robert Pearl Starks

"The Cloud" was a big buzz word in 2012 and will likely continue in 2013 but how have Higher Education institutions responded to cloud-computing?  

34% of Higher Education IT Professionals are working with a cloud computing solution in their school or district according to the information compiled in this interesting infographic here. 

Among the benefits of cloud computing solutions for Higher Education, the four mentioned include:

• Greater student accessability to tools through browser-based access
• Ability to sample technologies easily before deciding which to purchase
• Flexible subscription-based pricing
• Savings realized from driving down IT costs

Four Pitfalls include… >>>

King Alexander, President of California State University and advisor to the President on educaiton affordability discusses the rising costs of higher education, an issue affecting all types of institutions.  This discussion demonstrates the relationships between costs, technology, salaries, market conditions, and other interdependent variables.  

Watch The Rising Costs Facing Higher Education on PBS. See more from SoCaL Insider with Rick Reiff.

I thought this was a nicely done video about the experiences and challenges of students and faculty with disabilities in higher educaiton.

Social media is all the buzz these days but equally fascinating as the explosion in technology we are witnessing is the explosion of innovation.  In the book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, author Clay Shirky says, “We are living through the largest increase in expressive capability in human history.”  Whereas this means there is an abundance of worthless content being created, there is also an explosion of creative ideas and social media is allowing those ideas to spread faster than ever.  Business ideas are no exception as we have seen many technology start-ups, each… >>>